PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 7
James Hastings · 189,784 words · 195 reading sections
Section 181
Here, again, let us turn to our New Testament. We get a glimpse there of life's marching orders as they were interpreted by one of its chief characters. Have we grumblers, comfortably housed meanwhile, with families and friends, with incomes, with all our easy securities, ever tried to picture to ourselves the actual s…
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^[ In a letter that she wrote in 1873 to Mr. J. W. Cross, whom she married after the death of George Henry Lewes, George Eliot showed how strong her feeling for religion and her craving for spiritual fellowship had become. " All the great religions of the world," she writes, "historically considered, are rightly the ob…
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482 RELIGIOUS CONVERSATION eternal : and they have painfully felt how much they are losing, day by day, both of assistance and of comfort, from a total silence, in the presence of experienced and Christian men, upon a point on which they so much need and would be so deeply thankful for either advice or encouragement. …
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1. The topics of Christian conversation are as varied as the experiences of the Christian life. But these are sure to be leading topics, all centring in the Unspeakable Gift. (1) His Name. — We can image the men of Malachi's day who feared the Lord saying, " There are fearful blasphemers abroad. Men speak and act as i…
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^[ Oh, the unmitigable curse of controversy ! Oh, the detest- able passions that corrections and contradictions kindle up to fury in the proud heart of man ! Eschew controversy, my brethren, as you would eschew the entrance to hell itself. Let them have it their own way. Let them talk. Let them write. Let them correct …
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III. The Listening God. 1. "The Lord hearkened, and heard" them. He knew for what purpose they were convened. He smiled on their con- ferences and took note of their wishes, and, if they did not succeed in stemming the tide of apostasy, they had the comfort that in doing their best the Unseen Eecorder of their counse…
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1 Phillips Brooks. MALACHI in. 16 491 All holy thoughts and all holy words belong not only to the present, but to the eternal future as well. Never a holy thought has been lost in the history of the world, nor can be lost. Never a holy word has disappeared. They are all preserved. It is not the cleverness of an idea…
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Clergyman's Magazine, 3rd Ser., vi. 296. A Peculiar Treasure. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure [A.V. in that day when I make up my jewels] ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.— Mai. iii. 17. Little or nothing is kn…
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^| This used to be a well-known fact ; and daily still, in certain edifices, steeple-house, joss-houses, temples sacred or other, every- where spread over the world, we hear some dim mumblement of an assertion that such is still, what it was always and will forever be, the fact: but meseems it has terribly fallen out o…
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The Judge of all the earth will surely do what is right. He will spare those only who can be spared in righteousness. He will not call evil good, and good evil, to arrive in this way at an unrighteous judgment. He will spare only those whose best the blood of Jesus clears, as well as those whose worst the blood of Jesu…
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God will spare us approvingly, as having much in us to approve, much in us to admire (mystery of mysteries !), much in us to 1 J. Sargent, Life and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, 28. 502 A PECULIAR TREASURE reward and crown. In the day of Christ, remembrance will be made of every service that we ever did. Nothing…
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Tj Some people are afraid lest the thought of God's people being His jewels should be lost by this rendering, but it is not. 1 J. T. Marshall, in The Expository Times, vii. 18. 504 A PECULIAR TREASURE If you read it as it is in the Authorized, " They shall be mine, saith the Lord, in that day when I make up my jewel…
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506 A PECULIAR TREASURE put Himself in a listening attitude to hear every word they said. God not only heard the talk, but it was so pleasing to Him that He wrote it in a book, which He calls " the book of remembrance," kept before Him for them that fear the Lord. These are the men whom God calls " a peculiar treasure…
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(2) The fact of 'purchase,. — Is that thing ours which we have bought by current coin in the market, and for which we have paid its highest possible value ? If so, how much more do these belong to God whom He hath purchased for Himself, not with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of His …
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1 H. Moorhouse. 510 A PECULIAR TREASURE process destroys the power of sin in their hearts, and prepares them for heaven. TJ Lately, I visited a famous pottery. In one room I found a young lady painting a beautiful flower on a vase. I said, " You take a great deal of trouble with that." " Yes, it takes me a long time…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.